GQ editor Jim Nelson, on whether he’d win a fight with the menswear designer: “Tom Ford would kick my ass so bad I???d end up in a lame little puddle of tears.”
Counters designer Thom Browne: “I???m a stubborn Irishman, so I???d probably win.” [FWD]
At a Live Out Loud charity event the other night, hosted by Xanadu’s Cheyenne Jackson, we ran into designer and Central Park jogger Thom Browne, who was co-hosting the evening, and asked him why, for a fashion guy who’s so clearly smoking hot, he hadn’t transformed himself into the alternative Marc Jacobs — the Marc Jacobs who obsessively flaunts his David Barton body in the pages of many a magazine.
How come, we prompted Browne, he wasn’t out there showing himself off? “Because nobody’s asked me!” he replied. Shame!
We half-joked that we were going to call a men’s magazine editor and lobby him to commission a Browne spread. Browne coyly said he’d do it if the opportunity arose. Funny, then, that one of the rumors we heard at last night’s National Magazine Awards was that a major glossy might be working on something of that very nature.
Not the kind Marc Jacobs has sworn himself off of, however. This designer’s drug of choice is running, and he’s invited Style.com videographers along to catch his junk bouncing through Central Park. And yes, he’s jogging in a cardigan, straight off the runway. And yes, there are butt shots. Pervs.
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In the midst of stalking Bragelina baby photos, Googling ourselves, and laughing at Ann Curry, we somehow found a few minutes for the things other people (like, perhaps, you) care about. Such as those fabulous Hollywood meets New York fashion awards events . Ah, yes … last night marked the CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America) awards.
Of course any event that puts Tom Ford, Anna Wintour, and Janet Jackson in a room together gets our blood flowing — had only something actually happened at these awards besides the boring awards stuff, there may actually be more fun news about it out there.
Yet, for those who care, the big winners of the night were Francisco Costa (women’s wear), Thom Browne (men’s wear) and Tom Binns (accessories). Sandra Oh accompanied Peter Som, and Chloe Sevigny was disappointingly hideous.
But, by far, the talk of the event was Jessica Simpson and the hoochie dress that managed to out-slut Scarlett Johansson and Lindsay Lohan combined.
While we could have asked for more, we guess winners, losers, and the dahling Jeremy Piven surrounded by young thangs in trampy outfits will have to tide us over until the next People hits newsstands.
Francisco Costa Wins Top Fashion Award [AP via New York Times]